Directions

Begin by visiting the blog to gather some great ideas on anchor charts for high school teachers.  Next, watch the video to learn how to create virtual anchor charts for your classroom.  Read the informational section below the video and complete this section by reflecting in the Zombie Survival Guide. 

A Secondary Teacher's View of Anchor Charts

Anchor charts provide an additional source of assistance to your students.  Anchor charts are not just for use in the elementary classroom.  They can play a vital role in the secondary classroom.  Melissa Kruse is an instructional coach and former English teacher.  Her blog, Reading and Writing Haven, provides a secondary English teacher's viewpoint on the use of anchor charts.  Click here to go to her blog.  

A key teaching point to an anchor chart is that it is more than a poster to display on your classroom wall.  The most powerful aspect to your anchor charts is when you refer to them in your lesson or use them with a student to reteach or review a concept.  Students have to be taught how to use the anchor charts.  They have to know why you created them and how the strategy or skill on the chart is to be used in their work.  

Visible Learning: The Sequel

A Synthesis of Over 2,100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

Remember, the goal of your classroom is to enable students to be independent problem solvers.  Anchor charts will allow them to have easy, quick access to skills and strategies that will promote independence.